S2 E6 In conversation with Junnifa Uzodike & Dr Ayize Sabater about Montessori for babies
05/20/21 • 73 min
I said last week I’d have to do a podcast soon all about babies, and after our book launch Zoom party for The Montessori Baby last week where Junnifa and I were talking all about our love for babies, I decided it could be fun to share the recording from the book launch party for this week’s podcast. We talked about how we show respect for babies in the Montessori approach, we give you a virtual tour of the book, and even some of the people featured in the book were live on the call and able to talk about how it’s been for them to apply Montessori in their lives. And the most fun is Dr Ayize Sabater of the Black Montessori Education Fund. He kindly agreed to host the event and you can just feel his joy and his passion for Montessori. Enjoy...
Links from the show
- Dr Ayize Sabater - Instagram, blackmontessorieducationfund.org
- Sanny van Loon - Instagram (our book illustrator)
- Montessori Chapters, Maria and Charlie
- Montessorian by heart, Neus - Spanish/Brazilia
- The Kavanaugh Report, Nicole Kavanaugh
- Mainly Montessori, Pilar Bewley
- Raising Yannis, Ahoefa
- Forest Montessori, Jaya
- Montessori in Real Life, Theresa
- Montessori like a Mother, Amy
- Karin Slabaugh
- To order 10+ books for schools or wholesale, email [email protected]
- YouTube video of The Montessori Baby book launch
- Tilt Parenting
- Bilingualism
- Eowyn Crisfield - Bilingual Families: A Practical Language Planning Guide book
- Eowyn Crisfield - Raising Bilingual & Multilingual children workshop
- Colin Baker, A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism
This week's listener question
I'd love to hear more about your journey incorporating Montessori and bilingualism, Simone. Where we are moving next (in the US), we'll have to choose between one or the other for schooling (a Montessori school or an immersion school). The second language is not my first language, but we'd still like to introduce a second language. How did you navigate this or do you have any tips or resources you recommend? Thank you! - Sarah
I said last week I’d have to do a podcast soon all about babies, and after our book launch Zoom party for The Montessori Baby last week where Junnifa and I were talking all about our love for babies, I decided it could be fun to share the recording from the book launch party for this week’s podcast. We talked about how we show respect for babies in the Montessori approach, we give you a virtual tour of the book, and even some of the people featured in the book were live on the call and able to talk about how it’s been for them to apply Montessori in their lives. And the most fun is Dr Ayize Sabater of the Black Montessori Education Fund. He kindly agreed to host the event and you can just feel his joy and his passion for Montessori. Enjoy...
Links from the show
- Dr Ayize Sabater - Instagram, blackmontessorieducationfund.org
- Sanny van Loon - Instagram (our book illustrator)
- Montessori Chapters, Maria and Charlie
- Montessorian by heart, Neus - Spanish/Brazilia
- The Kavanaugh Report, Nicole Kavanaugh
- Mainly Montessori, Pilar Bewley
- Raising Yannis, Ahoefa
- Forest Montessori, Jaya
- Montessori in Real Life, Theresa
- Montessori like a Mother, Amy
- Karin Slabaugh
- To order 10+ books for schools or wholesale, email [email protected]
- YouTube video of The Montessori Baby book launch
- Tilt Parenting
- Bilingualism
- Eowyn Crisfield - Bilingual Families: A Practical Language Planning Guide book
- Eowyn Crisfield - Raising Bilingual & Multilingual children workshop
- Colin Baker, A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism
This week's listener question
I'd love to hear more about your journey incorporating Montessori and bilingualism, Simone. Where we are moving next (in the US), we'll have to choose between one or the other for schooling (a Montessori school or an immersion school). The second language is not my first language, but we'd still like to introduce a second language. How did you navigate this or do you have any tips or resources you recommend? Thank you! - Sarah
Previous Episode
S2 E5 Wisdom from two of my favourite Montessori grandparents, Barbara Isaacs and Ferne van Zyl
In this episode, Barbara and Ferne share so much wisdom from years of Montessori teaching, Montessori parenting and being a Montessori grandparent. By the end of the episode, you'll want to adopt both of them as surrogate grandparents in your home too!
Links from the show
- Barbara Isaacs - Montessori Europe, Montessori Musings, Montessori Granny, My Montessori Life podcast
- Ferne van Zyl - The Independent Child, Instagram
- The book you wish your parents had read, by Philippa Perry
- On Children by Kahlil Gibran from The Prophet, by Kahlil Gibran
- What is the research into Montessori?
- A group for Montessori grandparents with Pamela Green
This week's listener question
My son is 7 months old, I have been following all the Montessori principles that i can find and using it with my son. I live in Kathmandu and the concept is there in a very superficial way. Schools are called Montessori but they don't follow the principles. So my question is regarding my son visiting his peers / friends who live in a mountain of electronic toys.
How will my son deal with an environment where no one is vaguely following the method. All his toys are wooden Montessori toys and his friends have just plastic and battery operated toys. What can i expect from his interactions with his peers.
And what will the difference be between him and his friends when they are older?
Next Episode
S2 E7 with Ana-Kay from Pickneys at Play all about Montessori with twins
Something I get asked a lot about is how to do Montessori with twins. I loved this conversation with Ana-Kay of Pickneys at Play who shared with us everything from eating and toileting with two, when they copy each other doing something that's not safe, some travelling tips and how they incorporated their religion and Jamaican culture into their home.
Links from the show
- Pickneys at Play - Instagram
- From Childhood to Adolescence, by Dr Montessori
- stand up diaper change
- language matching activity
- giving them access in the kitchen
- dressing area
- travel tips
- DIY oversized object permanence box
- DIY chalkboard
- DIY placemat
- books from and about the Caribbean
This week's listener question
"Hi Simone, My daughter (recently turned 2) is really into counting at the moment. She had a beautiful abacus that she uses all the time. She, of course, gets the order wrong most of the time en generally counts one.. two.. eight, nine, ten! I want to help her slowly get the hang of it, but don’t want to say “no, you’re doing it wrong, counting goes like this”. I try to do this by counting out loud when possible (for example the coops of coffee when she helps making coffee or the number of tomatoes for dinner). But I’m an insecure about how I can help her best when she is counting for herself. Should I just leave her to it, correct her and, for example, count together, or what would be the ‘Montessori way’ to help her? Love to have your take on this!" - Eva
The Montessori Notebook podcast :: a Montessori parenting podcast with Simone Davies - S2 E6 In conversation with Junnifa Uzodike & Dr Ayize Sabater about Montessori for babies
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Hi everyone Simone here and welcome to The Montessori Notebook podcast. How are you all doing? I'm here to hopefully fill your day with a little bit of peace and positivity as we learn from others about applying the Montessori approach. And I said last week that I have to do a podcast soon all about babies. And after our book launch zoom party for the Montessori baby last week, where Junnifa and I were talking all about our love for babies. I thoug
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